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How to Store Your Porsche Over Winter

Solving Winter Storage Problems

Unfortunately, the time arrives when you must put your toys away for winter. As the days shorten, many Porsche owners face the prospect of storing their car and not using it over the winter months. Winter storage raises many questions and there are a variety of ideas as to how to approach it.

Recommendations for Porsche Storage

We work with many professional shops that offer storage and maintain car collections that are stored in pristine condition and ready to be driven at a moments notice. So, we assembled the best advice on how to store your car for the winter.

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Choosing the Best Engine Oil For Your Porsche

Evolve Your Thinking to The Best Oil For Porsche

The choice of Porsche engine oil is critical for performance, wear protection, engine life, and emissions efficiency. There’s a lot of noise about Porsche factory-approved oils A40, C20, C30, and C40 for example, and many personal opinions on the oil brands of choice, oil weights, and additives used. However, until now, no one has challenged the real underlying shortcomings of the synthetic oil in your engine. Porsche wanted to know if there was a alternative to petroleum-based oils.

Tested By Porsche – Best of the Best

More than 32 different oil manufacturers, including the largest well-known brands, tested their oil for the Porsche approval. Evolve’s oil produced superior results that exceeded all other tested oils.

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Porsche Flat Battery – No-Start and Battery Draw Problem Solving

How Healthy is Your Battery? Diagnosing the Flat Battery, No Start or Battery Draw Problems on Your Porsche.

Good battery goes flat? – no power or weak power after overnight parking? Finding a draw on a battery that causes it to go flat or have very weak power after a relatively short period e.g., overnight parking, can be a real pain in the you know what! Finding the problem can be a long drawn out and frustrating process – often this can also be expensive because of the hours involved to establish the source of the problem.

Here’s what you need to know and some shortcuts to solving battery problems: Read Full Article »

Porsche Transfer Case Warranty – Update

17 Weeks Have Passed Since a Valid Transfer Case Warranty Claim and Still No Check. So Why the Long Delay in Refunds?

As we reported, in late Q3 2020, Porsche began reaching out to owners with emails or physical mail providing warranty extension details for the transfer case on Macan and Cayenne models. Porsche said, “on certain model year Porsche Cayenne and Macan vehicles, the transfer case long term durability may be below Porsche’s high-quality standards.”

Many owners have already had to replace the transfer case on these models. So, Porsche agreed to pay for the previous repairs and provided a mechanism for making the claim. All well and good, except, as of January ’21, no one had got their refund check! Why the delay? Read Full Article »

Porsche is now an SUV Manufacturer with a Legendary Sports Car Pedigree

53 Years and a Million Reasons Why This Was Such a Good Idea

Porsche recently crossed an important milestone – the 1 millionth Porsche Cayenne rolled off the production line and was delivered to a smiling customer in Germany. Not bad for a sports car company that took the gamble to start the design and production work for an SUV style vehicle in the late 1990’s – that’s when most of us were pondering the Y2K problem!

It took Porsche 53 years to produce 1 million 911 coupes. The Cayenne has surpassed that number in a brief 18 years and looks easily set to overtake the all-time 911 production numbers. Along with its SUV partner, the Macan, the Cayenne has changed the Porsche dynamic and stolen the show. Read Full Article »

Porsche Technical Q & A – October 2020

Porsche Technical Q & A – Highlights of the Most Recent Technical Questions We’ve Answered – Some, No One Knows the Answer to Yet!

We receive thousands of visits every month to our common problems pages. We encourage you to contact us if you don’t find the answer to your particular issue and we do our best to try to find a solution.

We receive hundreds of questions every month in this way and we try to gather them together to identify any trends. The type of question varies dramatically from what appears to be design issues on new cars, to very unusual mechanical behavior. Here are some of the issues that have come up most recently.

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Porsche Maintenance Plan – Is it worth it?

Porsche Maintenance Plan for New Cars – Is it Worth Paying for Maintenance Upfront and What Do You Get for Your Money?

Porsche offers the optional prepaid ‘Scheduled Maintenance Plan’ for its new vehicles. There were changes to the plan more recently, as all new cars now include a complimentary first annual or 10K mile service. Some of these maintenance plans on offer, can run into multiple thousands of dollars.

So, what do you get for your money if you decide to pay for maintenance up front and what are the benefits? We remove the smoke and mirrors to give you a better look at what is actually going on here. No Refunds! Read Full Article »